Other Delegates are also looking at Unusual Expenses, on the heels of some kinda DE-motivating emails. Some people are positioned to absorb Unusual Expenses, many are NOT.
VegasPatriot is traveling not from THE furthest continental point, but VegasPilot presumably IS traveling from Las Vegas...across most of the damn country.
TRANSPARENCY sez put it out in the open...NOT precise travel logistics (times/routes) but cost of travel from point A to point B, and cost per night to STAY somewhere, and cost per day to be AWAY from another place if applicable.
The jury seems to be out on RUCKUS or NO RUCKUS, but the choice evaporates without Warm Bodies on hand. Shy of at least one righteously angry Billionaire stepping in and doing the hostile takeover thing, NOBODY is competing with Obama & Romney from the BUCKS angle.
Tampa in August will take care of the WARM part, which "just" leaves the SHEER NUMBERS hurdle.
Once y'all hash out what this spectacle of gen-yoo-INE activism will cost...to get ALL of Ron Paul's Delegates and as many Die Hards as possible to Tampa...THEN a dedicated thread for mission-specific, closed-end fundraising.